- Re: Does anyone know if this thesis of Patrick Moore's has been effectively rebutted? - Archived Message
Posted by Willem
on February 25, 2020, 9:07 pm, in reply to "Does anyone know if this thesis of Patrick Moore's has been effectively rebutted? -"
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A rather odd mix of stuff. On the one hand he says the increase in CO2 is nothing to worry about because plants will love it, resulting in a greening of the planet, but then on the other hand he appears to say near the end that there is a tremendous decrease in CO2 (his downward blue line) soon to hit zero apparently (give or take a few million years according to his graph). It may undoubtedly be the case that certain plants or other organisms will make the most of increased CO2 emissions (while others may die quickly -- the whitening coral reefs). But that doesn't take away from the fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and the doubling of the amount over about 100 years represents something completely new and, according to all sorts of predictions, leads to a global temperature increase of 2 - 6 degrees, with Greenland and who knows how much of Antarctica melting. The resulting rise in sea levels and increase in storms and other extreme weather systems doesn't occur to this guy at all. ...that is, when we note that according to him, CO2 is actually decreasing (his blue line). But what does that blue line actually represent? He spends almost no time explaining something that's completely at odds with all measurements. Why? |